Benzyl acetate has the aroma of jasmine and is widely used in the field of flavors and fragrances.

Benzyl acetate is also known as benzyl acetate and benzyl acetate. Under normal conditions, it mainly appears as a colorless liquid with a certain fruity aroma and fragrant jasmine aroma. Benzyl acetate has good compatibility and can be miscible with alcohols, ethers, ketones, aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, etc., and is widely used in spices, medicines, pesticides and other fields.

Benzyl acetate is highly volatile, has a light and clear aroma, and is widely used in the field of flavors and fragrances. Benzyl acetate is the main spice in popular floral fragrances such as jasmine, gardenia, white orchid, and hyacinth. It can also help modify the fragrance atmosphere of other floral and fantasy fragrances, and enhance the stagnant and difficult-to-transmit fragrances in heavy fragrances such as oriental fragrances. Fragrance, market demand is strong. In addition, in the pharmaceutical field, benzyl acetate is also widely used in the synthesis of various pharmaceutical intermediates.

Although benzyl acetate widely exists in a variety of plants, it is difficult to prepare benzyl acetate from natural plants with current plant extraction technology. Therefore, industrial production of benzyl acetate mainly uses chemical synthesis methods. According to different raw materials, the chemical synthesis of benzyl acetate is divided into the preparation method of benzyl alcohol and acetic acid or acetic anhydride, the preparation method of benzyl ether and acetic anhydride, and the preparation method of benzyl chloride and sodium acetate. Among them, the products of the first two production processes have a mellow aroma and high quality, but the acidic raw materials are highly corrosive and have a greater impact on equipment and the environment, which may cause environmental and financial pressures. They also have problems such as long production cycles and low production efficiency. . The preparation method of benzyl chloride and sodium acetate is the most economical production method, but the product purity is low and the aroma is insufficient. In recent years, the academic community has developed a phase transfer catalytic method to synthesize benzyl acetate, which has the characteristics of simple operation, fast reaction speed, mild reaction conditions, high product yield, and low cost. It is expected that with the promotion of technology, the phase transfer catalytic method will become The main production process of industrial benzyl acetate.

According to the “2023-2028 China Benzyl Acetate Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center, Benzyl acetate has certain hazards. On October 27, 2017, benzyl acetate was included in the list of Category 3 carcinogens by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. This move has dealt a certain blow to the application of benzyl acetate.

In recent years, with the improvement of residents’ living standards and the popularity of the “please yourself” consumption concept, the fragrance and flavor market has expanded, driving the development of the benzyl acetate industry. At the same time, the fragrance and flavor industry is one of my country’s key strategic emerging industries, and its development is encouraged and supervised by national policies. The government has issued policies such as the “Industrial Structural Adjustment Catalog (2019 Edition)” and the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Flavor and Fragrance Industry”, requiring the flavor and flavor industry to pay attention to the safety of raw materials and encouraging the flavor and flavor industry to develop in a green and high-end direction. . Industry analysts said that the benzyl acetate industry should consciously standardize production operations, strengthen supervision of production links, and strictly control product quality.